Eating in Theory

by Mol, Annemarie

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Title Statements

Full title :Eating in Theory / Annemarie Mol.

Summary

As we taste, chew, swallow, digest, and excrete, our foods transform us, while our eating, in its turn, affects the wider earthly environment. In Eating in Theory Annemarie Mol takes inspiration from these transformative entanglements to rethink what it is to be human. Drawing on fieldwork at food conferences, research labs, health care facilities, restaurants, and her own kitchen table, Mol reassesses the work of authors such as Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Hans Jonas, and Emmanuel Levinas. They celebrated the allegedly unique capability of humans to rise above their immediate bodily needs. Mol, by contrast, appreciates that as humans we share our fleshy substance with other living beings, whom we cultivate, cut into pieces, transport, prepare, and incorporate-and to whom we leave our excesses. This has far-reaching philosophical consequences. Taking human eating seriously suggests a reappraisal of being as transformative, knowing as entangling, doing as dispersed, and relating as a matter of inescapable dependence.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2021

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Duke University Press
Place of Publication:Durham
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2021

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (208 p.).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781478012924, 1478012927
DOI:10.1515/9781478012924
oclc:on1248758941
LC Classification:TX357
Dewey Decimal:394.1/2

Subjects

Aliments -- Aspect de l'environnement Eating (Philosophy) Food -- Environmental aspects Food habits Food habits -- Netherlands Food habits -- Psychological aspects Habitudes alimentaires -- Aspect psycho… Habitudes alimentaires -- Pays-Bas Netherlands Nourriture SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultura…